The National Geographic Magazine
Norway Not the
Prize the Invaders
Expected
Rugged mountains and
rigorous climate help
Nazis hold the captured
country. In long sum
mer days air and sub
marine bases menace
Murmansk shipping.
Scapa Flow, northern
Scotland, lies 320 miles
west of Stavanger; and
Wilhelmshaven, Germany,
an equal distance south of
Mandal; Iceland is 720
miles west of Trondheim.
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precious oil and gasoline to all corners of the
earth where United Nations' forces are fight
ing or preparing to fight.
All of these vessels, requisitioned from pri
vate shipowners, are under the management
of the Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission
which was created for that purpose by the
Royal Government in the early summer of
1940. The Mission, commonly referred to
as "Nortraship," has its headquarters in
London.
Mr. Oivind Lorentzen, director of Nortra
ship, recently pointed out that of the total
tonnage, 60 percent is trading at freight rates
which were agreed upon between the Nor
wegian shipowners and British Ministry of
War Transport as far back as November,
1939.
The rest of the fleet, he added, is sailing
at rates stipulated by the United States Mari
time Commission.
Aside from income taxes levied on Norwe
gian citizens outside Norway's boundaries, the
merchant fleet is today the Royal Norwegian
Government's only source of revenue.
Money derived from it is used to meet ad
ministrative expenses, to make interest and
amortization payments on foreign bonded in
debtedness from prewar years, to finance a
far-reaching health and recreational program
for Norwegian seamen, and to meet numerous
other miscellaneous expenses imposed upon the
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